Panorama (8 Mar 06)

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War Hero

Anyone watch the BBC program about the lead up to the De Mendez shooting?

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'An army surveillance operative was positioned outside his home. The soldiers unit has had success whilst in N.I. At the time of De Mendez leaving his address the soldier was not observing or recording the area and could not communicate with SB officers as he was answering a call of nature'

On a differnet note - KRATOS, now thats an Op name! Sounds like something out of Star Trek!

LE

I was hoping to watch it, but missed it. I was "answering a call of nature".

Had a feeling it was going to be blamed on the Army. Bet he/she had a quick posting out!

Anyway. How many opportunities were there between the house and the tube station for a positive ID to take place, but didn't? Did the Firearms Team have no idea who they were being deployed against (ie. a pic)?

..oops

Can I claim for that?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

"And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled."

LE

The BBC:
"Its not just the political bias. It's the utter intellectual vacuity of it .... like watching 11 years olds debate politics"
"The BBC supports a whole class of parasites whose ambition is to destroy the service of the very people who, through forced taxation, pay their wages.

War Hero

I was hoping to watch it, but missed it. I was "answering a call of nature".

Had a feeling it was going to be blamed on the Army. Bet he/she had a quick posting out!

Anyway. How many opportunities were there between the house and the tube station for a positive ID to take place, but didn't? Did the Firearms Team have no idea who they were being deployed against (ie. a pic)?

I think that the squaddy brought the cake and the SB the arrse for the party.

I thought the program was quite good - even if it did go on a bit about his family. It showed the pressures that the police were under at the time, so soon after 7/7 and 21/7, can you imagine if he was one of the bombers, I'd bet the public would of been really peeved off then. The program didnt really portray the timeline adequately to allow the 'viewer' to completly grasp the severity of the situation.

It also didnt say if he was in the UK illegally. Or did it? I to had to answer a call of nature. The pan will be smeared for days.....

Back on course. The fact that 5 rounds were fired in to his head - People should have a look around the world in places where suicide bombers have struck a number of times, like Israel, Russia etc. There is enough footage out on the net to show them exactly what the police are now facing on our streets. It is no longer a possibility, these people are here. Does the British public have tunnel vision or what? 7/7. I have seen the FEET pictures of the scene and it was gruesome. Why doesnt our news agencies publish those?

LE

It should come as no surprise that the Army would get the blame as Peter Taylor was the Journo doing the research. He's not exactly the biggest fan of ours now.

"The message is that there are known knowns - there are things that we know that we know. There are known unknowns - that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns - there are things we do not know we don't know. And each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns."